| LANGUOROUS | Lou, Gus and Nora are confused and listless (10) |
| ASTA | Nick and Nora are his humans |
| NOSUGAR | Marriage of Gus & Nora lacks sweetness |
| AMBIVALENT | Having feelings that are confused and vile, Batman wavers (10) |
| ICELANDERS | Members of Gus Gus and Sigur Ros, e.g. |
| ETHEREALLY | Heartless Lucy and Ethel are confused, spiritually (10) |
| THETHINMAN | 1934 Dashiell Hammett novel whose central characters are Nick and Nora Charles (3,4,3) |
| SALLYFIELD | Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun and Nora in Brothers & Sisters (5,5) |
| FOURLEGGED | Wolves are confused about new rule (4-6) |
| MUSICALEAR | Cats, for example, are confused about melodic affinity (7,3) |
| SAUERKRAUT | Turks are confused, finding gold in vegetable dish |
| DODDERY | Rod and Eddy are confused and unsteady (7) |
| MESSES | Situations that are confused and full of problems (6) |
| DOASTHEROMANSDO | So a mother, dad, son are confused and act like the locals in Italy? (2,2,3,6,2) |
| MOPE | I object about work and become depressed and listless (4) |
| CATS | 1981 musical in which Gus and Grizabella are characters (4) |
| HABANERO | He and Nora munched, grabbing salt and pepper (8) |
| THINMAN | The ?, 1934 Dashiell Hammett novel whose central characters are Nick and Nora Charles |
| DASHIELLHAMMETT | Creator of Nick and Nora Charles and Sam Spade |
| APATHETIC | One's very sad and listless (9) |
